Automatic stacker-tooth point



June 1s, 192s. 1,542,6:58

H. lc.v JOHNSON AUToum'Ic smeken TOOTH POINT Filed May 15', 1924 gmetov A. C. da/vso# Patented June 16, 1925.

U'NrrEDfspTAATEs HARRY C. JOHNSON, OF MASON CITY, NEBRASKA.

AUTOMATIC STACKER-TOOTH POINT.

Application led May 16,

To all wlw/m. it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY C. JOHNSON, a citizenl of the United States, residing at Mason City, in the county of Custer and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Stacker-Tooth Points, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a point for a stacker tooth which will allow the hay or like to pass readily upon the fork and prevent the same from backing olf from the fork with the buck.

The device contemplates the provision of a very simple and eiiicient construction which is reliable in operation, inexpensive to manufacture, strong, durable, and well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

This body embodies a pivoted retaining member which will be disposed in a substantially reclining position when vthe hay is being forced on the fork but which will move to a standing position when the load is bucked upon the fork. It is a common practice to use a spring finger or an integral linger. Both of these structures have numerous objections which are overcome by this invention.

With the above and numerous other objects in view as will appear as the description progresses,'the invention resides in certain novel features ofco'nstruction, and in theV combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the point showing the saine on a stacker tooth,

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section therethrough,

Figure 3 is a fragmentary bottom plan view of the point, and

Figure 4 is a transverse section taken through the point substantially on the line 1 -4L of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the arrow.

Referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that 1 designates an ordinary stacker tooth having a beveled end 2. My point is in the form of a hollow shell, one end beveled and closed at 3 so as to termi- 1924. Serial No. 713,819.

nate inthe point 4. The other end is opened so as to receive the beveled end of the ,stacker tooth which is held in place by a Y tom slot 7.

through the slot 6 and its lower portion eX- tends into but not beyond the slot 7. The upper or longer portion of this finger is provided with the beveled end 12 so that the hay may readily pass thereover when the finger is in the reclining position that is resting on the beveled portion 2 of the tooth 1. l/Vhen the load on the fork is bucked this linger will'move to the dotted line position shown in Figure 1 and is substantially vertical so that its upper portion engages the forward end 14 ofthe slot 6 while its lower or shorter end engages the end 9 of slot 7 and thus all of the strain is taken oil' of the pivot pin l1.

Although I have described the inventionk i with a certain degree of particularity, it is to be understood thatchanges in the details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacriicing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as newis:

1. In combination with a 'stacker tooth having a beveled end, of a point shell disposed on said bevel end, said shellbeing of hollow construction having an elongated upper slot and a substantially short lower slot, and a retaining linger pivoted in the shell and extended through the elongated upper slot so that it may be disposed either in a vertical position or reclining on the beveled end of the stacker tooth.

2. In combination with la stacker tooth having a beveled end, of a point shell disposed on the beveled `end of the stacker tooth and being of hollow construction provided with an upper elongated slot and a reclining substantially rests on the beveled lower relatively short slot, the inner end of end of the tooth. 10 said short slot terminating adjacent the eX- in testimony whereof I affix iny signature treinity of the stacker tooth7 and a retaining in presence of two Witnesses.

ting-er pivoted intermediate its end Within HARRY C. JOHNSON.

the shell so that when vertically disposed it Vitnesses:

abuts the forward end of the elongated slot BEN D. ERICH,

and the rear end of the short slot and when PETER NELSON. 

